Quotes About Story

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.

Every major summer blockbuster that is released is essentially a product line being launched across multiple verticals. However, the centerpiece of the product launch is a big, beautiful story whose job is to entertain.

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

If there are no stars in your film, nobody will look at you. If you have Sunny Leone in the film you will get hundreds of dollars but if you have a honest story to tell it's difficult to find producers.

As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.

Beauty shouldn't be superficial and should come from within, and your eyes will tell the story.

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

But that's getting too far ahead of the story, almost to the end, although the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

What is History," said Napoleon, "but a fable agreed upon?

The thing about perspective is: something happens. it means nothing. we make up a story about what it means based on what we feel. this story becomes our truth. this story creates our reality, our world, what is possible and what is not.

Life's like a novel with the end ripped out

the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, though it is a story

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

Yo soy un escritor apasionado, no intelectual, lo que quiere decir que mis personajes tienen que adelantarse a mí para vivir la historia. Si mi intelecto los alcanza demasiado pronto, toda la aventura puede quedar empantanada en la duda y en innumerables juegos mentales.

The words become poetry that no one minds, because no one has thought to call it that. Time is there. Love is there. Story is there.

MOYERS: So the one great story is our search to find our place in the drama? CAMPBELL: To be in accord with the grand symphony that this world is, to put the harmony of our own body in accord with that harmony.

When the story is in your mind, then you see its relevance to something happening in your own life. It gives you perspective on what's happening to you. With the loss of that, we've really lost something because we don't have a comparable literature to take its place.

Myths are stories of our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story. We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to life and then to death. We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. It tells you what the experience is.

Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...